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Further to fall, harder to rise: Australia must outperform to come out even from COVID-19

  • Written by Ross Garnaut, Professorial Research Fellow in Economics, University of Melbourne

“Pestilence is so common,” writes Albert Camus in The Plague:

There have been as many plagues in the world as there have been wars, yet plagues and wars always find people equally unprepared. When war breaks out, people say: ‘It won’t last. It’s too stupid.’ And war is certainly too stupid, but that...

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